Re: Need Chinese/Japanese fonts to display Russian texts!

Nickolay> XEmacs maps codepoints that correspond to the mentioned Nickolay> chars into chinese and japanese charsets. I don't have Nickolay> ISO-2022 on my hands, but I am pretty sure that the Nickolay> standard positions those chars in Far East charsets. Ugly, ain't it? This has always been true. Nobody in a position to help with testing has ever pushed it before (I think the usual practice is to simply use an 8-bit XEmacs with a KOI8-R font, which gives pleasant results with no fuss). First, check to see if GNU Emacs has this right. We should be able to synch to their implementation for 21.4. If not, I think the right way to deal with it in 21.4 is your #2, assuming you have KOI8-R fonts. (Caveat, as I said before I don't know how to do this on Windows.) Create a private 96 charset for each non-ISO encoding that uses C1 to represent graphic characters. Eg, KOI8-R, create symbol-koi8-r (as you did in the recent post). The registry should be "koi8-r" (if there are variants, regexpify that to handle them all). Change the registry for the cyrillic-iso8859-5 charset to "koi8-r". Change the current KOI8-R CCL codecs to simply map graphic C1 characters to symbol-koi8-r code point + 32 - 128, and back. Use these codecs both for fileio and redisplay. That's the theory, I don't know if there's anybody left who has done this in practice. For 21.5, you'll have to ask Ben. Nickolay> 3. Wait until full Unicodizing internals and hope the Nickolay> problem will disappear. Nope. This will require work, and help from you (or some Cyrillic users, anyway) for testing and sanity checking on X (where we can't yet count on Unicode fonts) and maybe on Windows (I suspect we probably need a KOI8 detector). Nickolay> Current implementation of Unicode support maps box Nickolay> drawing and friends to Far East charsets. This can and should be fixed in 21.5 by changing charset precedence. I don't know if 21.5's mechanism is flexible enough to do it right yet; again, Ben's the guy to ask. In 21.4, Unicode is not supported. Yes, we do some autodetection, and we provide the Mule-UCS package. But it's orphaned by upstream, and nobody understands it. In principle you should be able to change Mule-UCS mappings to use KOI8-R or whatever. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.